The Triple Folly documents an unlikely provocation — three found paper objects handed to Caruso St John with the question “Can you make this into architecture?” — and the sculptural pavilion that resulted from this exchange between artist Thomas Demand and textile maker Kvadrat.
About This Book
What begins with a legal pad, a paper plate, and a soda jerk hat ends as a tripartite inhabitable folly perched on the seaside hillocks of Kvadrat’s Ebeltoft campus in Denmark. The Triple Folly traces this cross-disciplinary collaboration between Thomas Demand, Caruso St John, and Kvadrat — a project rooted in Demand’s sustained interest in the tent as an archetypal architectural structure, and his artistic method of translating lightness of form through paper. The completed building, a sequence of steel and fibreglass structures, plays light, shadow, opacity, and transparency against one another to create three distinct spaces: a meeting room, a kitchen, and a flexible living space housing a textile work by Rosemarie Trockel. For anyone interested in the overlap between contemporary art, architectural practice, and material culture, this publication is essential reading.
Key Features
- 72 pages of extensive photography of the completed pavilion alongside in-depth illustrated conversations
- Interviews with Frank Gehry, Denise Scott Brown, Adam Caruso, Valerie Verhack, Anders Byriel, Emilie Appercé, and Thomas Demand
- Embossed linen hardcover with tipped-in image
- Published by MACK, 2022
What You’ll Discover
- How three found paper objects served as the conceptual and formal genesis of a completed work of architecture
- The way Demand’s artistic idiom — paper as a medium of duplicitous whimsy — was materialised in steel and fibreglass by Caruso St John
- The tent as an architectural archetype across leisure and shelter, simplicity and grandeur, and its influence on the folly’s design
- How light, shadow, textured opacity, and transparency function as primary spatial devices in the completed building’s three distinct environments
About the Author
Thomas Demand is an artist known for constructing architectural and everyday scenes from paper and cardboard, which he photographs before destroying. Caruso St John is a London-based architectural practice led by Adam Caruso and Peter St John, recognised for work that engages closely with cultural context, material specificity, and art collaboration.
Specifications
- Format: Embossed linen hardcover with tipped-in image
- Pages: 72
- Dimensions: 310 x 237mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781915743084
- Publisher: MACK
- Publication Date: 2022
Perfect For: Architects and artists working at the intersection of disciplines, readers interested in cross-disciplinary collaboration, and those drawn to the conceptual edges of contemporary pavilion and installation design.